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Phil Brennan
Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2002
[Here's someone who get's what I've been saying, but actually says it coherently...]
The congressional elections are bearing down us, and if the current polls are accurate the outcome nationally will be something between a toss-up and a slight Republican gain in House and Senate seats.
Democrats are chewing their nails. Just a few weeks ago they were talking about keeping their slim control of the Senate and possibly winning back control of the House, which they lost in 1994 and have not been able to regain despite picking up some of the seats they lost in the Gingrich revolution.
Now they're just about resigned to the prospect that the House will remain in GOP hands, and are sweating bullets over the thought of losing their one-seat plurality in the Senate.
Sen. Torricelli explained his sudden departure from the New Jersey Senate race as being made necessary by the Democrats' need to hang onto control of the Upper Body on Capitol Hill, but if GOP strategists are correct, even if the voters of New Jersey are totally unconcerned about justice, fairness and the opinions of their fellow Americans and proceed to send the decrepit Frank Lautenberg back to Washington, Torricelli's withdrawal will prove to have been meaningless.
It looks as if the GOP will still be able to pull it off and regain control of the Senate lost thanks to Sen. Jeffords' sickening Benedict Arnold act.
The media are beginning to grasp this highly unpleasant reality. The New York Times, nowadays the unabashed house organ for the National Socialist Democrat Party (NSDP), has been playing the rigged polling game to the hilt, as Dick Morris and Fox News have demonstrated, headlining results that weren't there to make the coming debacle appear to be a GOP mirage – a case of wishful thinking by those rascally Republicans.
But the handwriting is on the wall, and unlike the "mene, mene takel upharson" now being scribbled on Saddam's palace walls, it simply reads "George W. Bush."
The media would like Americans to believe that the president is playing the war card in the election campaign in an effort to take the nation's mind off an economy that leaves a lot to be desired. This, they say, is reflected in both Mr. Bush's continued popularity and in the failure of the NSDP to get its wantonly deceptive points across about domestic issues.
The Iraq war is not merely an issue in the campaign – it is THE issue. Wars always trump all other issues. After all, they often involve the lives and safety of countless numbers of young Americans. When that kind of thing is at stake it does tend to grab the public's attention and divert it from anything else.
What the NSDP is now coming to realize is exactly what they are dealing with in George W. Bush, a man they've previously been deriding as some kind of spoiled ninny who hasn't a brain in his head and who really didn't win the 2000 election either, so there!
They're beginning to understand that Bush not only has a brain but he also knows how to use it, and, even worse for them, he is one tough cookie who barely conceals the iron fist within the velvet glove.
He has managed to divide and conquer, splitting the Democrats right down the middle into the faction that's now lining up behind him to save their political skins, and the peacenik Bonoir-MeDermott faction, which seems determined to be skinned alive on Election Day.
The realists in the NSDP are beginning to get the measure of the man and it scares the living daylights out of them. While he comes across as an aw-shucks Texas farm boy who just wants to get along with everybody, he has the heart and mind of a political genius. He fully understands that politics is indeed the art of the possible, and operates within its limitations while always quietly expanding its borders without anybody noticing what's happening.
Somebody once said to me that the most helpful thing in life is to have your enemies think you're stupid. That gives you all kinds of room to maneuver because you will always be underestimated. George Bush was blessed in that regard. And his enemies are learning too late just how badly they have underestimated him.
The reality that is beginning to set in is that this is an extraordinary and courageous man, a self-deprecating politician totally devoid of any conceit. To the dismay of the Socialist Democrats the public has sensed this reality and is reacting to it. And it has nothing to do with the campaign's emphasis on the Iraq question. It has to do with the nature of the man himself.
Unable to cope with this shocking reality, the commissars of the Socialist Democrat Party are resorting to their old tactic of portraying Republicans as your grandmother's worst nightmare, the enemy of the sick and poor and black and minority Americans, bound and determined to either put us all in the poor house or simply to wait until we're aged or crippled and then shove us off a cliff in our wheelchairs.
There's a word for that: filth.
And it's not going to work.
And now for a fearless prediction: (1) Saddam Hussein will be history before November, without a U.S. invasion, and (2) so will the NSDP.
And if I'm wrong, it won't be the first time.
*****
Phil Brennan is a veteran journalist who writes for NewsMax.com. He is editor & publisher of Wednesday on the Web (http://www.pvbr.com) and was Washington columnist for National Review magazine in the 1960s. He also served as a staff aide for the House Republican Policy Committee and helped handle the Washington public relations operation for the Alaska Statehood Committee which won statehood for Alaska. He is a trustee of the Lincoln Heritage Institute.
He can be reached at phil@newsmax.com
Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2002
[Here's someone who get's what I've been saying, but actually says it coherently...]
The congressional elections are bearing down us, and if the current polls are accurate the outcome nationally will be something between a toss-up and a slight Republican gain in House and Senate seats.
Democrats are chewing their nails. Just a few weeks ago they were talking about keeping their slim control of the Senate and possibly winning back control of the House, which they lost in 1994 and have not been able to regain despite picking up some of the seats they lost in the Gingrich revolution.
Now they're just about resigned to the prospect that the House will remain in GOP hands, and are sweating bullets over the thought of losing their one-seat plurality in the Senate.
Sen. Torricelli explained his sudden departure from the New Jersey Senate race as being made necessary by the Democrats' need to hang onto control of the Upper Body on Capitol Hill, but if GOP strategists are correct, even if the voters of New Jersey are totally unconcerned about justice, fairness and the opinions of their fellow Americans and proceed to send the decrepit Frank Lautenberg back to Washington, Torricelli's withdrawal will prove to have been meaningless.
It looks as if the GOP will still be able to pull it off and regain control of the Senate lost thanks to Sen. Jeffords' sickening Benedict Arnold act.
The media are beginning to grasp this highly unpleasant reality. The New York Times, nowadays the unabashed house organ for the National Socialist Democrat Party (NSDP), has been playing the rigged polling game to the hilt, as Dick Morris and Fox News have demonstrated, headlining results that weren't there to make the coming debacle appear to be a GOP mirage – a case of wishful thinking by those rascally Republicans.
But the handwriting is on the wall, and unlike the "mene, mene takel upharson" now being scribbled on Saddam's palace walls, it simply reads "George W. Bush."
The media would like Americans to believe that the president is playing the war card in the election campaign in an effort to take the nation's mind off an economy that leaves a lot to be desired. This, they say, is reflected in both Mr. Bush's continued popularity and in the failure of the NSDP to get its wantonly deceptive points across about domestic issues.
The Iraq war is not merely an issue in the campaign – it is THE issue. Wars always trump all other issues. After all, they often involve the lives and safety of countless numbers of young Americans. When that kind of thing is at stake it does tend to grab the public's attention and divert it from anything else.
What the NSDP is now coming to realize is exactly what they are dealing with in George W. Bush, a man they've previously been deriding as some kind of spoiled ninny who hasn't a brain in his head and who really didn't win the 2000 election either, so there!
They're beginning to understand that Bush not only has a brain but he also knows how to use it, and, even worse for them, he is one tough cookie who barely conceals the iron fist within the velvet glove.
He has managed to divide and conquer, splitting the Democrats right down the middle into the faction that's now lining up behind him to save their political skins, and the peacenik Bonoir-MeDermott faction, which seems determined to be skinned alive on Election Day.
The realists in the NSDP are beginning to get the measure of the man and it scares the living daylights out of them. While he comes across as an aw-shucks Texas farm boy who just wants to get along with everybody, he has the heart and mind of a political genius. He fully understands that politics is indeed the art of the possible, and operates within its limitations while always quietly expanding its borders without anybody noticing what's happening.
Somebody once said to me that the most helpful thing in life is to have your enemies think you're stupid. That gives you all kinds of room to maneuver because you will always be underestimated. George Bush was blessed in that regard. And his enemies are learning too late just how badly they have underestimated him.
The reality that is beginning to set in is that this is an extraordinary and courageous man, a self-deprecating politician totally devoid of any conceit. To the dismay of the Socialist Democrats the public has sensed this reality and is reacting to it. And it has nothing to do with the campaign's emphasis on the Iraq question. It has to do with the nature of the man himself.
Unable to cope with this shocking reality, the commissars of the Socialist Democrat Party are resorting to their old tactic of portraying Republicans as your grandmother's worst nightmare, the enemy of the sick and poor and black and minority Americans, bound and determined to either put us all in the poor house or simply to wait until we're aged or crippled and then shove us off a cliff in our wheelchairs.
There's a word for that: filth.
And it's not going to work.
And now for a fearless prediction: (1) Saddam Hussein will be history before November, without a U.S. invasion, and (2) so will the NSDP.
And if I'm wrong, it won't be the first time.
*****
Phil Brennan is a veteran journalist who writes for NewsMax.com. He is editor & publisher of Wednesday on the Web (http://www.pvbr.com) and was Washington columnist for National Review magazine in the 1960s. He also served as a staff aide for the House Republican Policy Committee and helped handle the Washington public relations operation for the Alaska Statehood Committee which won statehood for Alaska. He is a trustee of the Lincoln Heritage Institute.
He can be reached at phil@newsmax.com
